6 Bidders for Delhi-Katra Expressway’s Pathankot Link Road

6 firms have submitted bids for the civil construction work of the 12.345 km…

23 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 1 Comment
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CMRS Inspects Bangalore Metro’s Whitefield Extension

The Commissioner of Metro Railway Safety (CMRS) from the Indian Railways’…

22 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Bangalore Metro ⋅ 3 Comments
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8 Bidders for Kochi Metro Phase 2’s General Consultant Contract

8 firms have submitted bids for Kochi Metro Phase 2’s General Consultant…

21 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kochi Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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Afcons Begins Kolkata Metro Line-6’s D-Wall Work at Airport

Afcons Infrastructure this weekend began work to construct the diaphragm wall…

20 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 6 Comments
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ST Only Bidder for Chennai Metro Line 3 & 5’s Platform Screen Doors

May 6, 2023 Update: CMRL has cancelled the tender February 19, 2023 Original…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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ETA Awarded Delhi Metro Line-8’s E&M, ECS & TVS Contract DE-09

ETA Engineering – Polycab India JV this week was awarded a Rs. 263.44…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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Afcons’ Delhi-Meerut RRTS TBM S88 Relaunched from Bhaisali

Afcons Infrastructure this week recommissioned tunnel boring machine Sudarshan…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi NCR RRTS ⋅ 3 Comments
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11 Bidders for Mysore – Kushalnagar Expressway’s Work in Karnataka

11 firms have submitted a total of 31 bids for the civil construction of 92.3…

19 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 5 Comments
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6 Bidders for Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor’s C4 Tunnel Contract

6 firms have bid to construct 4.7 km tunneling Package C-4 of the 121.7 km Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor (HORC) project after Haryana Rail Infrastructure…

18 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Haryana Orbital Rail Corridor ⋅ 0 Comments
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8 Bidders for Bangalore-Vijayawada Expressway’s Packages 5-6 & 11-14

8 firms have submitted a total of 30 bids for the civil construction contracts of 518 km Bengaluru – Vijayawada Expressway project’s packages…

18 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Expressways ⋅ 0 Comments
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Afcons’ Delhi Metro Phase 4 TBMs S710 & S1134 Pass Factory Tests

Tunnel boring machine manufacturer Herrenknecht this week completed factory acceptance tests (FAT) on TBMs S-710 and S-1134 for constructing the 65.1…

18 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Delhi Metro ⋅ 1 Comment
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L&T’s 1st Chennai Metro Phase 2 TBM Kaveri Starts Tunneling

Larsen & Toubro on Thursday commissioned S-1327A – their 1st of 8 tunnel boring machines for the 118.9 km Chennai Metro Phase 2 project…

17 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Chennai Metro ⋅ 5 Comments
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L&T, ITD & Afcons Bid for Kolkata Metro Line-3’s Underground Work

3 firms – Larsen & Toubro, ITD Cementation India and Afcons Infrastructure on Tuesday submitted bids for Kolkata Metro Purple Line’s 5.05…

16 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Kolkata Metro ⋅ 15 Comments
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RBL Casts Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 Package C3’s 1st Pier

Ranjit Buildcon Ltd. last week poured concrete to cast the very first pier for Ahmedabad Metro Phase 2 project‘s Package C3 connecting Sector-1 –…

16 Feb 2023 ⋅ by ⋅ in Ahmedabad Metro ⋅ 0 Comments
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Commencement date of metro operations along with current operational length:

• Kolkata: 24 October 1984 – 58.7 km
• Delhi: 24 December 2002 – 353.3 km
• Bangalore: 20 October 2011 – 94.3 km
• Gurgaon: 14 November 2013 – 12.1 km
• Mumbai: 8 June 2014 – 68.5 km
• Jaipur: 3 June 2015 – 12 km
• Chennai: 29 June 2015 – 54.1 km
• Kochi: 19 June 2017 – 27.9 km
• Lucknow: 6 September 2017 – 22.9 km
• Hyderabad: 29 November 2017 – 67 km
• Noida-Gr. Noida: 25 January 2019 – 29.7 km
• Ahmedabad: 6 March 2019 – 60.7 km
• Nagpur: 8 March 2019 – 38.2 km
• Kanpur – 29 December 2021 – 16 km
• Pune: 6 March 2022 – 31.2 km
• Navi Mumbai: 17 November 2023 – 11.1 km
• Agra: March 6 2024 – 5.2 km
• Indore: May 31 2025 – 5.8 km
• Patna: October 6, 2025 – 3.2 km

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